(Transcript) Simon Stead: My name is Simon. I’m a software engineer and I work on the Digital team that works with Food in Co-op.
So I already knew a few people who worked at the Co-op from my last job and they told me how fantastic it was to work here, how nice everyone was so I thought I’d apply and then I managed to get in.
We’re working on a multidisciplinary team so there’s me, some other software engineers, but it’s lots of user researchers, interaction designers, content designers, delivery managers, everyone is just pooling all of their resources and sharing all of the work and just getting your hands dirty at the same time.
So we’ll all be sat on the same table and I don’t often feel like a software developer because we’re all just trying to solve a common problem together. If that’s data, if that’s design, if that’s dev, if that’s user research we all pitch in and do a lot of the same stuff together.
I think the best thing I like about working at Co-op is that I can just try new things all the time, I get so many new opportunities and I get to engage with so many different people, be that people in Co-op Digital in the Food business, different stakeholders, area managers, store managers, whoever they may be.
I’m autistic, I’ve got Asperger’s syndrome and so one of the really nice things about working at Co-op and Digital is that I know I’ve got a wealth of support behind me so if there’s any problems I’m having I know I can talk to whoever I need to to solve that. If I need flexible working hours or anything like that it’s just all available here.
So we work over here at Federation and we also work over in Angel Square but Federation, the open space, the air, the light, the colour, the beanbags, everything just makes it such a nice open place to work and I feel like that really gets reflected in the digital products and services that we build.
Working at Co-op, I always thought I’d be the kind of person who would just like hop from job to job and never really stick to one place but I honestly can’t see any reason that I’ll be leaving anytime soon.
Simon Stead
Software engineer
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